The cutting edge

HGG Group( HGG) began over 40 years ago in a small town north of Amsterdam when three engineers came together. Wiebe Wiersma, Chief Commercial Officer, shares the company’ s history:“ Mr. Hans Helmhout, Mr. Piet Goverse, and Mr. Pieter Glijnis founded the company, that’ s also where the name HGG comes from. In the early days, we were fully devoted to the niche market of 3D pipe cutting. The beauty of that business was that we more or less allowed architects to design whatever they wanted because the pipes were not often being used in structural steel. Our machines are capable of matching extracted drawings from 3D CAD packages to develop structures such as the London Eye, for example, something that was impossible to fabricate before because there was no equipment with which to do so.